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The Butchers of Vovchansk: Suspects named

They abducted the woman, fired a gun next to her ear, and beat her until she lost consciousness. Her tormentors have been named: a Russian citizen and someone from Luhansk are suspected of violating the laws and customs of war.

• War crimes

Huge mass ‘sentences’ after fake trial of Ukrainian POWs whom Russia accused of its own war crimes

If Russia had any grounds for accusing Ukrainians of its own most egregious crimes, it would not be hiding the POWs and holding effectively secret ‘trials’ in kangaroo courts on occupied territory

• War crimes

Suspicious secrecy over crash of military transport plane which Russia claims was carrying Ukrainian POWs

If Russia was telling the truth, it would have every reason to hand over the bodies, rather than hurling accusations and providing no evidence

• Events

Our people are at home: 207 Ukrainians were returned from captivity

On January 31, more than two hundred soldiers and civilians were returned from Russian captivity.

• War crimes

Seven years of hell for supporting Ukraine in Russian-controlled ‘Donetsk republic’

Valery Matiushenko recently turned 59, having been savagely tortured and imprisoned for almost seven years because of his pro-Ukrainian position

• War crimes

Russian invaders move to strip Ukrainians forced to flee occupied Berdiansk of their homes

Among the immensely cynical ploys that Russia is using is to demand that the owners of property in occupied Ukraine claim it to be 'Russian'

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I realisied that it's a kilometre to run through unexploded shells to get to the well...’ — Chronicles of occupied Izium

Vitalii Smazhev spent 100 days with his mother in occupied Izium (a town in Kharkiv Region). He had to dig graves for old people who were dying of cold and get food from destroyed supermarkets.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia has turned Crimea into a huge prison for political prisoners and hostages from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts

Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has added civilian hostages from occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts to its already huge number of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

• War crimes

International Court of Justice rules that Russia must answer over Ukraine’s Genocide case

The UN court’s ruling also means that its binding Order that Russia immediately cease its bombing of Ukraine remains in force and could result in Russia being ordered to pay reparations

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Our evacuation train was shot,’ — memoirs of a film director from Irpin

After ten days of being under shelling, Olha Hdulia left Irpin with one backpack and two cats. Like thousands of city residents, she evacuated across the destroyed Romanivsky Bridge, which is now called the Bridge of Life.

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Horrific sentences against Crimean Solidarity journalists for telling the world of Russia’s crimes in occupied Crimea

All of those implicated in this final attack on Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists should be named and placed under international sanctions

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Bizarre 'motives' concocted to imprison renowned Memorial Head for opposing Russia's war against Ukraine

Russia is clearly trying to imprison 70-year-old Oleg Orlov, by claiming that his opposition to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine was based on ‘ideological enmity towards traditional spiritual-moral and patriotic values’